Round 2 Outcomes Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Recipients
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Create NSW Arts & Cultural Funding Program – Round 2 Outcomes Aboriginal Arts and Cultural recipients (9) $451,200 Annual Organisations (1): $100,000 1. Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance Aboriginal Corporation Saltwater Freshwater Annual Program 2020 ($100,000) • The 2020 Saltwater Freshwater (SWFW) annual program will deliver arts and culture projects to the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Biripi and Worimi nations. Projects include culture camps, weaving, exhibition and the Festival, all leading to skills development, maintenance and preservation of traditional practices, enabling inter-generational knowledge transfer from Elders to the youth. Creative Koori Projects (7): $331,210 1. Bulabunmarra Projects Pty Ltd Employment of artists/artworkers and Elders for untitled (transcription of country) ($118,860) • A major international research project and exhibition examining the 1800–1803 French expedition to Australia and the colonial transportation, trade and translation of significant Australian material. The exhibition will occur in Paris in 2021 at Palais de Tokyo and Château de Malmaison, and tour to Artspace, Sydney, in 2022. 2. Mr Dale Collier Guyang Giiny ($20,000) • Guyang Giiny is a site-specific project that will be produced over an 18-month period using the traditional cultural practice of making fire to produce multiple audio-visual and sculptural outcomes. The presentation of this project comprises of 250 scorched sculptures within an immersive performance installation at Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival 2021. 3. Mr Mitch King Flow – a yarn about country and water ($20,000) • Mitch King, Yaegl Bundjalung man, will present Flow, a one-man show inspired by community and country, and told through contemporary movement and hip- hop. Flow aims to strengthen the Indigenous voice and engage young people through a contemporary retelling of ancestral stories around culture, land and water. 4. Mrs Lorraine Tye walan gugaa – strong goanna ($19,350) • Wiradjuri Elder Aunty Lorraine Tye will undertake a creative and professional development project to allow her to integrate contemporary materials with her traditional weaving practice. Under mentorship by Jonathan Jones the artist will develop prototypes and procedures for scaling up her weaving work into larger- scale, public art works. 5. Ms Johanna Clancy Beneath the Madhan ($15,000) • Beneath the Madhan is a 3-week creative development project to create a 30 minute solo performer Aboriginal dance, language and puppet show for children. Upon completion of the development period the work will be ready to tour schools, gallery and garden spaces, festivals and events. 6. Ms Penelope Evans Burnt Banksia Mob ($18,000) • Penelope Evans will create an installation unprecedented in scale, size and numbers of her Burnt Banksia ceramic pieces for the forthcoming 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2021. It will commensurate with the scale of the unprecedented fires and droughts in Eastern Australia. 7. 2 Rivers Pty Ltd Cultivating Creative Communities ($120,000) • Cultivating Creative Communities is a professional development program to develop and promote access for regional and remote artists and art workers to increase their skills and networks. This program includes mentoring and workshops with professional Aboriginal artists and art workers resulting in exhibitions and performances across the region. Projects (1): $19,990 • Kirkala-Pithiluku Aboriginal Corporation Grassroots producing Arts and Crafts ($19,990) • Kirkala-Pithiluku Aboriginal Corporation (KPAC) will run a program of art and crafts classes with the grassroots Aboriginal community in Bourke to produce art and craft products to showcased in their gallery. Classical Music recipients (6): $153,810 Annual Organisations (1): $53,000 1. The Metropolitan Orchestra Incorporated. TMO 2020 Infrastructure and Sustainability Development ($53,000) • The Metropolitan Orchestra provides outstanding performance opportunities for its musicians, accessible first-class musical offerings to audiences of all ages and development opportunities supporting NSW artists, composers, conductors and administrators. The funding will strengthen TMO’s business capacity, building their corporate partner and philanthropic income for long-term sustainability and continued artistic growth. Projects (5): $100,810 1. Mr Andrew Blanch. Latin American Guitar Music (commissioning, presentation and recording) ($16,250) • Sydney-based composer Daniel Rojas will write a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, inspired by Latin American music, for performance and recording by soloist Andrew Blanch with Orchestra de Camara de Valdivia (Chile). The work will also be performed in Spain, Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne. 2. austraLYSIS Productions Inc. Dualling: Recording duets for musicians, computers and other media ($19,500) • austraLYSIS will create a commercial album of new improvised and composed duets. The duets will be performed in innovative human and posthuman combinations by two musicians - one musician duetting with a computer, one musician duetting with another medium (poetry or visual images) or one musician duetting with pre- recorded environmental sounds. 3. Dr Alana Blackburn. Regrowth - New multimedia work for recorder ($19,000) • A collaboration between recorder player Alana Blackburn and composer Ros Bandt to provide an opportunity for regional NSW community members affected by drought, floods and fire to have their voices heard in a poetic and respectful way. The project aims to contribute to the diversity of cultural expression and audiences. 4. New Steel City Strings Inc. Celebration of Youth 2021 ($26,160) • SCS is a 25-person ensemble embedded in regional NSW – members, players and audiences reside in the Illawarra/ Shoalhaven/ Wingecarribee regions. Their work reflects the lives and experience of the people in the region. SCS will contract local professional musicians, provide employment and opportunities to perform as soloists, participate in the creation of new work, arrange existing works, and mentor young players. They will program work of local composers, who will also adjudicate the composition competition for this project. 5. Prof Liza Lim. Re-imagining the String Quartet Festival ($19,900) • Re-imagining the String Quartet Festival will bring the acclaimed JACK Quartet (USA) together with Australia’s next-generation of string quartets and composers, for a series of masterclasses, mentoring workshops and performances. Situated in NSW’s premier music institution, the experience will foster Australian voices and allow international connections to blossom. Contemporary Music recipients (12): $275,763 Projects (12): $275,763 1. Music Council of Australia Pty Ltd. Music: Count Us In - Building a Direct Sales Capability ($15,000) • The participation program Music: Count Us In is a music in schools’ program, with over 1,000 NSW schools registered, supporting teachers to deliver inventive, creative and enjoyable music lessons in the classroom. Support for this project will build the capability to charge schools a small $2 per student rate, preventing the program from closing. 2. Stonewave Taiko Inc. Bega Big Matsuri ($18,980) • Professional Taiko Drumming Duo, YuNiOn will travel to Bega Valley throughout 2020 to 2021 to create community spectacular event 'Bega Big Matsuri’ with community-based Stonewave Taiko and their director David Hewitt. The project will have wide community participation and will also incorporate amateur community taiko players from Sydney. 3. Mr George Tillianakis. SOFT PEDAL II ($13,250) • SOFT PEDAL II is an electronic/experimental sound performance night at the Blacktown Arts Centre. Four new artists will perform with various technology/ instrumentation to generate sound/imagery. SOFT PEDAL is a Western Sydney focused event in order to develop new audiences for a craft that primarily relies on inner city audiences. 4. Dr Jeremy Rose. Second album creation and release plan ($19,950) • A video, album recording, album release and three concerts for a major new composition for Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra. The project creates an innovative work that explores traditional Korean drumming in a contemporary jazz music context whilst showcasing the emerging talents of Sydney's jazz and creative music performers. 5. Mr Jake Savona . Havana Meets Kingston II: uniting musicians of Cuba and Jamaica ($14,000) • Jake Savona will be working on Havana Meets Kingston II, which is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut album released in 2017. Havana Meets Kingston is a world-first collaboration between Jamaican, Cuban and Australian musicians, with Jake as musical director. 6. MusicNSW Inc. MusicNSW Regional Music Officer Program Phase 2 ($50,000) • The Regional Music Officer Program employs three music champions living and working in regional NSW to build capacity and broker relationships within their local industries through on-going, on-the-ground support. This application seeks support for Phase 2 between the scheduled pilot end and new multi-year funding in 2021. 7. Ms Alexandra Spence. Sound Art Performance and Skills Development via Residency & Touring ($10,303) • Alexandra Spence will develop her skills in synthesis and recording through residencies at MESS (Melbourne) and renowned electroacoustic studio EMS (Stockholm). She will then develop and tour an innovative sound-art performance through Northern Europe, including a performance with seminal musician David Toop